Recent content by RufusAtticus

Sean, My point about the “third option” was completely lost on you. I am not putting stock in it, because I don’t have to. The known natural mechanisms for evolutionary change are enough to account for the diversity of life on this planet. As I’ve demonstrated, your hand-waving and badly...

No. Ever head of the Modern Synthesis? No. Since when does theory revolving around communications get applied to chemistry? Of course they don't have the information, because you refuse to provide it. You have claimed in the past that there exists evidence for creationism, yet have...

Well when the government expects you to have manners at the table and encourages people to expect you to have manners at the table and it is against the governments charter to expect you to have manners at the table. . . . Well Eisenhower saw otherwise when he signed the 1954 bill into law...

I'm sure I can find many JW's and athesits that'd disagree. If it is so voluntary, why does it upset "True Patriots (TM)" when citizens exercize their constitutional right to not express their patriotism that way? The only reason it is volentary is that in the 1940s JWs had to go to the...

This probably has nothing to do with them being a Christian group, but rather the specific song they were going to play. You wouldn't happen to have the lyrics available would you? What about the lyrics to this song? Of course you need to provide the lyrics to this too. Probably...

Reference please. BTW: The feds give me money to study evolutionary theory. Yeah!

The pledge is not banned, only the governmental sponcership of one with religious statements. Gladly, except that in 1954 congress repealed the earlier version and courts have no power to bring it back. It will take a legislative act to bring back the old pledge, but the way politicians are...

How many times must this be said? The Newdow descision does not make it illegal to say "under God" or any version of the Pledge. What it does say is that the Government and the agents there of cannot sponcer a version of the pledge that violates first amendment rights. The same first...

LOL. You obviously haven't read the court descision, which shreads this argument to pieces. Note to all: Before you complain about a court descision and offer "proofs" against it, you should read it. Argumentum ex ignoratia is a waste of time. Newdow II

Not to mention the fact that he admitted that when he wrote his first book he didn't actually know as much about evolution as he thought he did.

I await the evidence from the Harry Potter series that The Sorcerror's Stone should not be interpretted historically. Could it be that there is no such evidence?

If anything this thread would be more appriate for the C/E forum in the Theology section of the board.

If that is true, then dissimilar designs must imply different Creators. Looks like monotheism is out the window then. We do have much greater variety in lifeforms than just land mammals: insects, sponges, bacteria, fish, conifers, ferns, angiosperms, mushrooms, birds, etc.

Considering that we don't actually know when Christ was born, it'd be hard to determine exactly what astronomical event if any was associated with it.

Wouldn't be the first time.